The labor market for software engineers in 2025 is going through A disconcerting phase. While many companies are running Great rounds of layoffs And vacancies take longer to cover themselves, the great technological have stepped on the accelerator in their hiring registering a moderate increase in recent months.
With the aim of understanding this phenomenon, Gergely Oroszengineer, analyst and author of ‘The Software Engineer’s Guidebook’ has crossed data from different technological employment platforms to offer a detailed analysis of the labor market in 2025. The result shows a panorama in transformation, in which traditional rules seem to have changed and Big Tech movements point to a future very marked by AI.
Boom in layoffs, but also in hiring. Just check quickly The newspaper library recent to discover that technology companies are executing Dismissal rounds In his templates. According to dataFrom the Trueup platform, in what we have been counted about 141,000 dismissals Among the great technology. The estimates are that 2025 closure with 210,000 layoffs that, despite being many, are below the 430,000 layoffs that were recorded in 2023 or 239,000 of 2024.
Dismissal figures in the technology sector
However, those same companies are the ones that are most hiring in recent months, registering a Mild up rising trend in the total of new offers in the labor market. The reason: these layoffs are not due to economic difficulties, but because companies have changed their business goals and are reorieting their templates. Companies such as Apple (2,177 vacancies), IBM (1,924 vacancies), Amazon (1,794 vacancies) and Oracle (1,394 vacancies) are the ones that have registered the most vacancies, according to the data revealed by Orosz.
Zuckerberg has taken the wallet. In case the latest movements of Millionaire signings in AI They leave a doubt, goal is the company that is hiring the most engineers, with an increase of 19% compared to its 2022 template.
Google and Apple show a somewhat more leisurely rhythm in hiring, although they increase their templates with new hiring at a rate of 16% and 13% respectively with respect to 2022.
Amazon and Microsoft later began their Pivotage to AIand their figures are maintained below 8%, although the last restructuring movements Of both companies, they point out that, in the face of the last quarter, that percentage will tend up.
Who is hired. Big Tech are immersed In a race For immediate profitable Investments in AI. So the profile that is being demanded most is the IA engineer profile that, According to data In Trueup, it has increased by 278.5% since its lowest point in 2023 and currently has 24,957 vacancies open.
The hiring data also reveal that the profile most demand IA -oriented specialtiesbut they are the engineers who already have a certain experience (with 27,864 vacancies available) or already with a senior profile (with 22,477 published employment offers).
Orosz’s analysis data reveal that the seniors engineers of ia will cover those vacancies, They will leave Big Tech Consolidated such as Google, Meta, Apple or Microsoft, joining projects in the new heavyweights of AI such as OpenAi, Anthropic or XAI, as well as other emerging unicorns.
The AI recover the work remote and sacrifices the bosses. According to data published by Orosz, the volume of offers of remote employment has fallenRegarding the previous year. However, the exception of the brand again the engineering of AI, where the urgency to recruit talent causes a relatively high number of vacancies to be maintained with the possibility of remote work.
In parallel, the leadership positions in engineering are seen increasingly limited. Amazon has significantly reduced the engineering managers roles. For its part, almost all Big Tech – with the exception of Apple— They have trimmed the creation of positions of director or intermediate positions.
This adjustment responds to a reorganization of internal structures, such as the one that has launched Googlethat prioritize smaller and agile equipment.
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